Virginia Woolf and the essay

Description:

"Unbeknown to many, Virginia Woolf spent the first twenty years of her career writing essays and book reviews. So well-known is Woolf for her fiction that her readers may easily overlook the fact that she is the author of over five hundred works of nonfiction, and that for nearly half of her writing career Woolf was primarily a book reviewer and essayist. Virginia Woolf and the Essay is one of the first critical studies of these essays and reviews. The collection begins with an introduction that surveys the historical reception of Woolf's essays, and then sketches out a methodological study of these essays by placing them within historical, literary historical, reader-oriented, generic, and feminist contexts."--Jacket.

subjects: Essai (Genre littéraire),  Essay,  English essays,  Histoire,  Knowledge,  Livres,  Essais anglais,  Prose,  Literatuurkritiek,  Essays,  Recension,  Criticism,  Literature,  Book reviewing,  History and criticism,  Criticism and interpretation,  Histoire et critique,  Et la littérature,  Critique,  History,  Woolf, virginia, 1882-1941,  Knowledge and learning

People: Virginia Woolf,  Virginia Woolf (1882-1941)

Places: Angleterre,  England

Times: 20th century,  20e siècle